Repetitive Chugging

MIKE WHEELER comes face to facewith Orff's Carmina Burana

It's head on the block time again, but there's no way round it: Orff's Carmina Burana is an absolutely dreadful piece — a turgid mixture of half-baked Stravinsky rip-offs and the kind of repetitive chugging that gets minimalism a bad name.